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THE NEWSLETTER

In This Issue

31 Global Leaders of

Fujitsu visited GTU

Virtual Round of

BAJA 2014

Boot camp for

mobile application

Training for trainers

Leadership Excellence

Summit 2014

Inspiring Future Engineers, Managers, Pharmacists & Technocrats December 2014

ujarat Technological University

CONGRATULATIONS to Ms. Bhagyashree Sheth, Ph.D Student of Gujarat

Technological University: The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi awarding

Ms Bhagyashree Sheth, the winner of tag-line contest for Swachh Bharat Mission,

at Rajpath, in New Delhi on October 02, 2014. Ms. Sheths doctoral work is being

supervised by Dr Sandip Solanki.

While the quality of a Learning Sys-

tem at any University is determined

largely by the Faculty Members and

the students jointly, the leadership

by senior professors and the Head of

Department, supported by theleadership of the Principal / Director, creates the environment for

the Learning Systems to become

excellent. GTU has been organizing an Annual Leadership Summit

for Deans, Principals/ Directors and Heads of Departments for the

last four years. The interview of George Blumenthal by EDU TECH

has brought out issues, which may be of interest to the enre GTU

community.

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal (Vice-Chancellor,GTU)

[Extracts from the interview on Page - 13 & 14]

Shri Narendrabhai Modi,

Honourable Prime Minister of

India, has inspired the

Swachcha Bharat Abhiyan.

Members of the GTU

family, spread out over differ-ent

Colleges / Institutes / Poly-

technics and in all the offices

of GTU have worked in their

own respective

Institutions and have taken an

oath of actively working for

a Clean India....


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All sectors will experience transformation

within next 30 yrs: Krish GopalkrishnanAhmedabad: Mr. Krish Gopalkrishnan, co-founder and ex-CEO of

Infosys gave thought-provoking speech in a naonal workshop

organised by AICTE, MHRD and Gujarat Technological University

(GTU). He said that we are going through disrupve (innovaon)

phase in the history of technology. Your smartphone is more

powerful than computer we were using in 1977-78 in IIT-Madras,

which was second largest mainframe computer in Asia at that me.

He also said that the other University in India will have to follow

the work done by GTU in the Area of Engineering Student Start up.

Automove, healthcare, educaon, e-commerce, ulies etc. will

get transformed over the next 30 years. And this will be just the

beginning of the transformaon. Thats why this is the best period

to think about business. We need to encourage our youth to set up business. Agriculture is also going to transform.

Sensor networks and automated drip irrigaon systems as well as all kinds of technologies will be helpful in this

transformaon.

He further elaborated that as every sector is going to change, we need to create environment for entrepreneurship.

(Entrepreneurship is the process of starng a business. The entrepreneur develops a business model, acquires the

team and other required resources, and is fully responsible for its success or failure). Entrepreneurship can develop

beer in a cultural milieu, which accept the failure. Gujarat is a state of business. Everybody wants to do business. To

foster entrepreneurship by design, we have to ulise our research and innovaon.

Entrepreneurship has no age barriers. Even a student must be allowed to start business. To create such an environ-

ment, we must include business in school curriculum. For the purpose, we have to develop courses in two aspects:

We can include topics like venture funding, balance sheet, how to create team etc. Besides this we should include

role of CAs, lawyers etc. also. Second area requires to inculcate values including discipline, story-telling etc. We must

bring successful entrepreneurs in classrooms to movate or inspire students to begin career in entrepreneurship. We

can take the help of group discussion on this, which can be also helpful to develop communicaon skills of students.

He recommended that we must involve community in this aspect. We need to convince parents. For a cluster of col-

leges an incubator to create an ecosystem can be started at very low inial investment. An example may be of estab-lishing an incubator at each of the 25 centres of GTU. Another important point is 80-90 % start-ups fails. So we must

tell students that failure is an opportunity to learn. We need to create a culture so that students to try again and go

further. We must take some steps for facules too. In USA facules are allowed to start business and aer a few

years again can come to teach students with his own experience. We also need to bring venture capitalists in the

class-rooms. Bangalore has 8, 00,000 soware professionals, whose total salary is around Rs. 50,000 Crore. They are

the main force behind ourishing of retail sectors and real estate in Bangalore. Thus to develop entrepreneurship, we

must take support of local businesses and government. Local businesses must help students for incubator projects.


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31 Global Leaders of Fujitsu Business Units and Fujitsu University visited Gujarat Technological University under

the leadership of Dr. Terumi Chikama, President and Dr. Noboru Konno; Program Director of FUJITSU University

to discuss on various iniaves taken by GTU in the eld of Innovaon, Design Engineering, CPDP (Contributor

Personality Development Program) and Ethical Democrac Leadership.

Dr. Terumi Chikama had discussed about the Fujitsu University and highlighted the reasons of their visit to Gu-

jarat which includes the academic contribuon of universies to society & industry and to know how one can

develop right social responsibilies among future technocrats.

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor of GTU had briefed about the work done by GTU in the said elds. GTU

had marked its presence in the academia through various unique iniaves and due to these extra ordinary

eorts GTU is appointed as Director of APEN (Asia Professional Educaon Network) for India. Dr. Aggarwal invit-

ed students of Fujitsu University to join the course on Gandhian Philosophy for Managing Business and Asian

Business at Gujarat Technology

University. GTU has proposed to

establish research laboratory with the

help of Fujitsu looking at their experse

in the eld of innovaon.

Over all the meeng was very interac-

ve with conversaons with all the del-

egates & they were very impressed

about the GTUs Business Ethics as well

as CPDP program. They discussed about

various ways of collaboraons between

GTU and Fujitsu.

31 Global Leaders of Fujitsu visited GTU

CENTRE FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS STUDIES


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To provide the macro level informaon to the Facules and Students about the business opportunies in Asian

and African Countries 2nd Conclave was organized on 19th July, 2014.

Mr. Shaida Mohd. Abdali Ambassador of Afghanistan to India shared that being a strategic partner of India

people of Afghanistan take immense pride in India's technological achievements. within the framework of India

- Afghanistan strategic partnership in higher educaon and technical assistance he requested to enrol more

Afghanistan students in technical courses like Engineering, Pharmacy, Management and Computer Science.

H. E. Mr. Rizali W. Indrakesuma, Ambassador of Indonesia to India stated that Indonesia is one of the very

few strategic partners of India. Strategic partnership is the umbrella that gives way to opportunies for cooper-

aon in Polical, Economical and Social fronts. He welcomed academic proposals between Gujarat and Indone-

sia. He proposed student exchange, scholar exchange and faculty exchange.

H.E. Mr. Ndubuisi V Amaku, High Commissioner of Nigeria to India said that the business relaon between

India and Gujarat with Nigeria has been remarkable. He praised the Global MBA program of Gujarat Technologi-

cal University and added that the vision behind this pracse would help the enre business fraternity of the

world. He told to vice chancellor that "I salute your creavity, Innovaon and Vision".

H. E. Dr. Lewis Mbilizi,Deputy High Commissioner of Malawi to India started his speech with "Namaskar". He

shared that Gujarat and Malawi has good business relaons. He informed the audience that many Gujarat peo-

ple are living in Malawi and doing business for many years. He proposed student exchange and faculty ex-

change program between the GTU and the universies of Malawi.

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor GTU briefed about the structure of Global Country Study Report (GCSR)

and shared that students of semester-

Ill have to study STEEPLED factors and in the nal semester they have tocarry out micro analysis with respect to any specic industry of the selected country. Focus of the GCSR is on

Afro -Asian countries and the neighbouring countries of India. GTU has started this parcular study to improve

business relaons and interacons with these countries.

Mr. N.K Goyal, President, CMAI, Mr. Sunil Modi, Board of Advisor, GCSR and Mr. K. H. Patel, former Ambassa-

dor of India also explained business opportunity in various countries of Africa as well as Asia. On behalf of Cen-

tre for Global Business Studies (CGBS) and GTU, Dr. Rajesh Khajuria, Director, CKSVIM, Baroda and Chairman

GCSR commiee has proposed vote of thanks.

CONCLAVE ON AFRO-ASIAN COUNTRIES



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On 18th June, 2014 GTU honored His ExcellencyMr. Steward Beck, High Commissioner of Canada

to India at the Canada Day, organized by the Cana-

dian Trade Oce at Ahmedabad. The High Com-

missioner was on his farewell visit to Ahmedabad.

GTU iniated its rst Internaonal Experience Pro-

gram(IEP) with University of Alberta, Canada in

the year 2011. Since 2011 most of the students

were granted visa to y to Canada for IEP. GTU

honored High Commissioner of Canada to India

for his support and contribuon towards the de-

velopment of the Internaonal Experience Pro-

gram of GTU.

On the occasion Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Vice Chancel-

lor of GTU said that His Excellency Mr. Steward Beck has always been very pro-acve in contribung to the suc-

cess of GTU IEP. First the Deputy High Commissioner visited GTU and interacted with the students, who wanted

to go to Canada. Then H.E. Mr. Steward Beck personally visited GTU. Dr Aggarwal said that GTU was thankful to

H.E. Mr. Steward Beck for his constant support in the development of GTU's IEP.

During the summer of 2014, 194 students of GTU were in foreign universies for 8 week educaon program. 98

Students have gone to Laurenan University in Canada, 44 students have gone to Wismar University, Germany

while 52 students are studying at Kansas State University in USA.

During the IEP students learn 2 of the subject and also appear in the exams of the subjects they study at the

foreign university. Students not

only aend the classes during

IEP but also go for industrial

visits. Exposure to the dierent

educaonal system and culture

provide a unique opportunity

for students to learn. In associ-

aon with German, Canadian

and American Universies

GTU's IEP has turned out to be

India's largest Internaonal

Experience Program.

Summer 2014:194 students of GTU attend classes in Foreign Universities


Mr. Steward Beck, High Commissioner of Canada

98 GTU Students gone to Lau-rentian University


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GTU became first university in India to go live on Google Apps

Ahmedabad: Four CEOs of large companies were together at GTU for its rst CEO in the Classroom program.

Dr. Janmejay Sinha began the discussion on Innovaon led growth. If you learn to enjoy learning, every-

thing will be easy for you in career ahead, said Mr. Vikas Khosla, president of Aditya Birla Insulators Ltd., apower sector professional in CEOs in the Classroom programme of Gujarat Technological University[GTU].

GTUs PG Research

Centre for Governance

Systems iniated the

unique programme by

inving CEOs with the

help of Global Talent

Track. Vice Chancellor

of the GTU Dr. Akshai

Aggarwal said that this

is rst such programme

and GTU would like to

regularly organise such

events. He inaugurated Google app of the university. GTU became the rst university in India to go live on

Google Apps. He said that learn to idenfy the problem and to think how to solve it. He gave some real life

examples about this.

Dr. Janmejay Sinha, Chairman of Asia-Pacic Operaons of The Boston Consulng Group parcipang in

the discussion said connuous learning must be way of life. In the next few decades, the world in which we

live and work will be changed. Structure of opportunity is changing. So think about innovaon, think about

consumer.

Dr. Ganesh Natrajan, Vice Chairman and CEO of Zensar Technologies elaborated about IT sector and ad-

vised students to be connues learner. Dr. Natrajan gave ps to use 3 Cs : Communicaon, Collaboraon

and Community. He said during the next few decades, more populaon will be urbanised. It is necessary to

think about new ideas and adopt it. He expressed the hope that Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) will

open up more opportunies for industrial development.

Dr. Uma Ganesh, CEO of Global Talent Track handled queson-answer session. Dr. A.M. Prabhakar, Princi-

pal of VGEC, Chandkheda said that we have to convert idea into innovave product. China and India are hav-

ing a big pool of talent and we have to learn to use it. Dr. G. P. Vadodaria, In charge-Registrar said that GTU

has formed steering commiee including representaves from various trade and industry organisaons like

GCCI, GICEA, GESIA etc. The commiee will help in thesis work of students. Syllabus revision of Diploma

courses has been completed with the full parcipaon of industries.


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Internaonal Conference on Role of Financial Industry in Economic Growth

GTU organized an Internaonal Conference on

Role of Financial Industry in Accelerang Eco-

nomic Growth. The Conference was orga-

nized by Post Graduate Research Centre for

Financial Services of Gujarat Technological Uni-

versity (GTU) in associaon with reputed for-

eign instutes and universies like Laurenan

University (Canada), Ural Federal University

(Russia), De Monort University (UK) and Indi-

an Instutes like Entrepreneurship Develop-

ment Instute, Ahmedabad and S.P. Jain Insi-

tute of Management & Research, Mumbai.

Mr. Milind Kulkarni, Director, Societe Generale(leading Bank of France) stated that farming and manufacturing

sector had developed less than service sector. In North-East only 6 to 7 % populaon is covered under banking.

Jan Dhan Yojana may be able to recfy the situaon. Personal banking and micro nancing are important for de-

velopment.

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal Vice Chancellor of GTU said that every management college should work to ensure that every

graduate is well-prepared for the markets of tomorrow. This can be achieved by improving communicaon skills in

students and by seng up the right mechanism to ensure a balance between work and study by increasing inter-

acon with industries. He added that for the success of Make in India project, nancial industry has to grow.

Mr. Kamlesh Gandhi, Managing Director of MAS Financial Services said that during the last 50 years economic

growth is phenomenal and nancial Industry has a major role in it. Financial Industry have to create more oppor-

tunies. We need nancial inclusions, nancial literacy, opmal policy and regulatory framework. Such integrated

approach will lead to sustainable economic growth.

Ms. Michelle David, Senior Lecturer, Department of Accounng & Finance, Faculty of Business and Law, De

Monort University, U.K. also addressed the conference. She said that I am quong what Gandhiji said: Be the

change. Financial Industry will have a major role to play, but society as a whole have to think what I can do? Dr.

Chinnam Reddy also presented his views.

Dr. G. P. Vadodaria, Incharge Registrar of GTU said that around 173 authors from 12 states of India and from 2 for-

eign countries have parcipated in the conference. 52 quality papers were published in the proceeding aer a

peer review. Top ve papers received trophies, among them were Dr. Harsha Jariwala, Rashmi Banerjee and Rid-

dhi Dave, Nirj Ramanuj and Chetna Parmar, Mrinal Joshi and Jayesh Desai, Dr Pallavi Modi.

Mr. M.V. Nair, Chairman, Credit Informaon Bureau, Mumbai emphasised on a robust nancial sector, which may

help in improving the economic development of the naon. He also said that banks have an important role to play

in the social development of the society. He suggested that terms of CEOs of banks should be longer.


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GTU launched PG

Diploma in IPR

Ahmedabad: GTU has

launched Post Graduate

Diploma in IPR course .Duraon of this program is

of 12 months divided in to

24 sessions at weekends

every month. Student cur-

rently pursuing or com-

pleted Master/ PhD in

Pharmacy/Engineering/

Management /Science or

Faculty member from GTU

aliated Pharmacy/ Engi-

neering/ Management

colleges or any working

professional possessing

Basic science degree /

Technical degree can apply

for the admission in this

new course.

The course will include

Chinese Patent System

and ARIPO Patent Systemin the syllabus which is

being oered 1st me by

any instute in India. Fac-

ulty from GTU, reputed

law rms, IPR cells of In-

dustry, Patent Ocers and

Foreign Experts will con-

duct the contact classes

for this course.

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Vice

Chancellor of GTU said

that educaon in IPR and

understanding of patents

in the eld in which stu-

dents are working on their

projects, will increase in-

novaon quoent of the

work that the student do.

Students showing Business Model Canvas

Program for empathizaon-ideaon-prototype

building skill of students for developing Innovaon

Date: 26th to 31st August 2014 Time: 17:30 pm to 20:30 pm

Venue: 126, GTU Student Startup Support System Co-Creaon Center (S4

-

C3), ACPC Building, L.D College of Engineering, Ahmedabad-15

Mr. Kaushik Akiwatkar explained to the students about the S4 acvies tak-

ing place at GIC, giving a brief introducon on GTU INNOVATION COUNCIL

over snacks and high tea. Around 70 students took part in the workshop.

Next session was carried by Mr. Yash Saxena who was the brain behind this

eort. He briefed the students about the term ideaon. Ideaon is the pro-

cess of idea generaon in systemac way. The teams were provided with

the BMC (Business Model Canvas). The BMC canvas is an extension of the

ideaon canvas.

The students were now introduced to the nal stage of Fuel-pad: The

Product Development Canvas. Here, the product development canvas is

used to develop the product to nal stage. The nal day began with the

presentaon by the students on their respecve product development can-

vases. Three minutes explanaon on their week long process of Fuel-pad.

Student Start-up Support System (S4)


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Largest ever Project Poster Exhibion At GTU

GTU students have parcipated in largest ever poster exhibion in our country. But it was organized within the

GTU system in a distributed manner. More than 6000 posters were displayed based on the nal year projects/

IDP/UDP on May 2, 2014, though some of the Colleges were able to do it in April 2014. Hundreds of industry

mentors parcipated during this massive process to mentor and appreciate students. While most of the

engineering colleges have successfully aempted this, we have received full report of such eorts of the col-

leges. Student from more than 20 sectors parcipated during this process. GTU had asked every aliated col-

leges to do this process systemacally through GTU Innovaon Club team members. This process is an integral

part of the academic process. Every college is required to publish the report of their eorts towards this at

their respecve websites. Here we present small report of BVM Engineering College:

BVM Engineering College organized a Poster Fair on 10th October 2014. About 200 posters of nearly 680 nal

year students were displayed. Vice Chancellor of GTU Dr. Akshai Aggarwal conveyed that the nal year projectsare the capstone of engineering educaon, and that most universies in the world award an engineering de-

gree to a student only when he/she prepares a nal year project successfully. Principal Dr. F S Umarigar intro-

duced the idea of Project Fair to the audience. Prof. S A Bakhru stressed on the importance of these acvies

and the need to do such fair. Chief Guest Mr. Jagadishbhai, President VUIA, encouraged the students to take

up challenging projects.

At the Result Declaraon phase three best projects from every department, and the names of the students

working on those projects, were announced. The judges and guests were requested to present their views on

the way the students had worked and on what could be done further. Mr. Shaswat Daa, Director, Radicon

PowerBuild, Dr. Vihal Kamath Director, Energy Systems, Mr. Darshak Mehta, manager EITL, Mr. P A Patel HR

manager, Elecon and almost all the judges and guests unanimously conveyed their pleasure on the work done

by the students, and provided useful ps. Prof. J N Jain Convener IDP_UDP Cell, Co-Convener III Cell, invited

feedback from the students. Prof. J N Jain concluded the program with vote of thanks.

It is further hoped that by the me all parcipants meet again at the Project Expo BVM 2015, somewhere in

April-May 2015, all would have collecvely taken together some further steps in the direcon of our common

goals, through such plaorms of Industry Instute Interacon.

www.gtuinnovaoncou

ncil.ac.in


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SEMINAR ON SMART CITIES - QUO VADIS?Centre for Governance Systems & Centre for Infrastructure, Transportaon and Water Management together

organized for the rst me in Gujarat this one day seminar on

SMART CITIES QUO VADIS? (Quo Vadis? is a Lan phrase meaning "Where are you going?")

More than 350 parcipants comprising ofprofessors/principals/post-graduate students

from various colleges aliated to GTU from

every corner of Gujarat, and other renowned

instutes/universies located in Ahmedabad

(CEPT University, PDPU, Nirma Univeristy,

Ahmedabad University, Gujarat University,

etc.) and the industry experts from various industries

have acvely parcipated in the Jam-packed event.

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor, GTU movated

the students of GTU to learn about such emerging

issues rigorously and prepare a praccal framework

for implementaon of smart cies in some town or

city in their neighbourhood. He said that if our cies

start becoming smarter we shall be able to ulize our

human wealth opmally.

Chief guest of the event, Shri Sudhir Mankand,

Chairman GIFT City, Gandhinagar explained variousaspects of smart city development such as Finance,

Environment safety, transportaon, land acquision,

internaonal airport development, etc.

Lecturer in Planning & Civic Design in the Department

of Geography & Planning at The University of Liver-

pool, UK Dr. Ian Mell gave key note address. TECH-

NICAL SESSION started with Shri Dilip Brahmbha

(Senior Manager- DMIC & Roads Sector) and Shri

Shardul Thakore (Sr Manager-SIR & Energy Sector).

Prof. B V Buddhadev, Principal, S. S. Govt. Engineering

College, Bhavnagar delivered his speech on Intelligent

& ICT infrastructures for Smart City. Prof. Sejal Patel,

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Planning CEPT

University, Ahmedabad, gave her speech on Smart

Cies: meanings, rhetoric and potenal of a travelling

concept in India. Dr. K N Sheth, Director Venus In-ternaonal Instute of Technology delivered his ses-

sion on Clean Environmental Issues of Smart Cies.

Panel Discussions took place at the last under a Chair-

manship of Prof. Saswat Bandopadhyaya, Professor at

the Faculty of Planning, CEPT University, and Ahmeda-

bad. The List of 100 Smart Cies proposed by Finance

Minister Arun Jaitely in 2014-15 Budget includes Ah-

medabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Juna-

gadh and Gandhinagar of Gujarat.

RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Smart city is a concept at an early stage of develop-

ment in INDIA. We should not have a rigid template

for the development. Instead parameters and con-

straints should be outlined by Government of India.

2. It is recommended that new satellite towns of Mega

Cies should be focused for Smart City development.

3. Exisng Medium size towns/city and towns with

unique features like Tourism, educaon complex or

heritage background to be taken up for Smart City

Development.

4. Government should formulate nancial model for

funding the Development of such smart cies under

planning.

Reference Please See:- Hp://les.gtu.ac.in/circulars/14Nov/07112014_03.pdf


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Faculty Development Program for Design EngineeringThe program of training of trainers for building Training capacity of Faculty Members was organized and it was

based on the mulple insights from various naonal and internaonal plaorms including the Design Thinking

approach of Stanford University and the approach being used at IIT -Delhi. There were 41 parcipants from of

many colleges. The duraon of the camp was seven days. The objecve was to test the pedagogical approach

of learning Design Engineering using advanced modern tools and strategies, while using minimum of re-

sources.

Four hundred four Faculty Members parcipated in FDP for Design Engineering .Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Honour-

able Vice-Chancellor, Dr. N.M. Bha and Dr. Rupesh Vasani (Members of the the Councils of Deans) met the

parcipants to discuss the pedagogies, being used by the Faculty Members for solving the problems. The cas-

es/examples, which were aempted by the teams of Faculty Members during this FDP, can be referred

through the following YouTube link:

hps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnNDkCrMqsxkfUJ0ISzT0IXAlOu3-WO65

You can also go through the YouTube links of various projects in the YouTube channel of GTU Innovaon Coun-

cil. These projects were done in a few evenings only. These problems are the very rst aempt made by the

teams. One can use these as a sample and one may be able to build his/ her design engineering problems,

which may be much beer. If you succeed in making a beer design problem, please send it to

Runs for Unity on National Unity Day

Marking the beginning of Naonal Unity Day

announced by Hon. PM Shri Narendra Modi, GTU

Vice Chancellor Dr. Akshai Aggrwal and Mrs

Shakuntla Aggrwal agged o a memorable event,

Run for Unity early in the morning on 31st

October,

2014 at Gujarat Technological University,

Chandkheda campus.

The day was celebrated in the memory of Sardar

Vallabhbhai Patel, the architect of United India. On

his birth anniversary more than 150 people run from

GTU Buildingto ONGC cross road at 8.30 am, includ-

ing Honble Vice Chancellor Dr. Akshai Aggrwal, Mrs

Shakuntla Aggrwal, Shri J. C. Lilani, Shri R. H. Rajput

and GTU sta members taking an oath for unity.


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Leadership Excellence SummitGTU-Centre for Business Ethics & CSR organizes leadership Excellence summit

every year since 2011. Leadership plays an important role in determining the out-

comes in terms of growth of faculty members and transforming leadership quali-

ties into the students. Top rated universities of the world have recognized the

need and invest in continuous training of academic administrators. In India GTU is

probably the only university which has been organizing the annual leadership

summit. 4th Annual leadership Excellence summit was organized on 6th Septem-

ber, 2014 at GTU, Chandkheda Campus, Ahmedabad. Around 120 members from

various GTU affiliated Institutes have participated in the seminar.

Mr R. Sunilkumar had started his session by giving examples of successful com-

panies and their leaders such as Walter Elias Disney, Walt Disney, Steven Spiel-

berg, Star Bugs, Amul, Bharti Airtel, Genpact, etc. He shared the example of Ford

Motors about thinking processes. He talked about real life instances in a humor-

ous way. He quotedlove what you do and do what you love

.

Dr. Shailesh Thaker is an internationally recognized leadership expert, manage-

ment thinker and Motivational trainer. He started with explaining about talent

which means unstoppable performance, only execution, producing result, creating

records and breaking records. Abha Maryada Banerjee, avers that the minds of an

educator must go beyond the call of duty, cut & paste leader process driven and

reality driven noun and verb of a leader. The components of a leader is vision,

team, organization, self -person and combination. In leadership ecosystem s the

causator of effects are others/Team/Partners, organization, self, vision/goals/

results and optimum combination.

Dr. Akshai K. Aggarwal, Hon. Vice Chancellor, GTU, said GTU will become a

great institute because of the work of the departments and the institutions. Policiesdo not create great institutions until they are implemented well then the institutions

become great and the implementation is totally in the hands of our leaders. The

job to transform every college, every classroom, every lab, every workshop into a

live places and all this depends on the teachers, HOD s and principals and this

seminar is design for us to come together and think upon it. Lets keep thinking

about how we can improve and make ourselves better, how we can grow because

it is your growth will lead to the growth of your institutions and ultimately the

growth of GTU. On behalf of GTU-Centre for Business Ethics & CSR Dr. K.N.

Sheth, Dean of Gujarat Technological University formally thanked all the experts

and participants for participating and sparing their valuable time for the summit.

Tie over Coee with

TiE Global CEO

Mr. P K Agarwal

GTU Innovaon Council organized

an expert talk by Mr. P K Agarwal,

the CEO of TiE Global. TiE is a Sili-

con Valley based non-prot dedi-

cated to fostering entrepreneur-

ship. The talk was on Next wave:

The future of technology and In-

dia. The parcipants were stu-

dents, Deans, Directors/ Princi-

pals, Faculty Members, student

start-ups and other stakeholders

from various backgrounds.

Mr. P K Agarwal started his

presentaon with a remark that

technological trends in India are

growing today at a much faster

rate, budding entrepreneurs are

coming up from among various

elds. India as a brand has turned

itself into something smart, sav-

vy, intelligent, and global. The

rst segment ended with the

queson WHAT COMES NEXT?

And WHAT IS OUR ROLE IN IT?

India ranks 76 in global innova-

on, we are pacing at a greater

rate, but the queson is the sus-

tainability.

The second session saw the rela-

on of Technology and Disrup-

ons. The last segment of the talk

emphasized the importance of

entrepreneurs and innovaons.

Mr. Agarwal described the ve

major trends that might take over

the world, including- Big data,

Privacy and Security, Smart every-

thing, Mobility and Globalizaon.

He also stressed on many elds

that are progressing at a greater

pace including Health, Govern-

ment, Transport, and Educaon.


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Extracts from an interview with George Blumenthal,

the Chancellor of University of California Santa Cruz

As reported in hp://www.edu-leaders.com/print_arcle/edu/

interview/1000211/mastering-university-management?print=true

Q. You have been with the University (of California Santa Cruz) since

1972 and must have had a view of what it takes for an academic leader

to succeed over the years. What are the qualies required for a univer-

sity leader today?

George Blumenthal: The issue of leadership in universies is very important and it requires a number of qual-

ies to be able to succeed as a leader. But, three of these qualies stand out.

First of all it requires vision. You have to have a vision about the direcon that your university should be taking

and the changes that need to happen. Secondly, as an individual you have to be able to generate trust, and

make people believe that you have integrity and honesty, so that they feel comfortable to walk along with you

on the path that you want the university to take. The third is a willingness to make some of the tough choices

and decisions that are needed at universies.

Q. You were a part of the working group to re-imagine the University and ensuring access while addressing

acute nancial challenges. What would your advice be to universies embarking on such a mission?

George Blumenthal: The commission on the future of UCSC was an eort to think about how the university s

mission has changed over the years and how we may meet the challenges of those changes.

For those embarking on a similar mission, my rst advice would be to keep your eye on the big picture and yourgoals. Understand the mission of the university rst because that sets the framework that can help you to think

about the future. Ask quesons like: Whats the mission of the university? Is it a public university? Does it have

graduate or undergraduate educaon or both? Second dont be constrained by the past. We face new challeng-

es all the me and so do universies. You have to be realisc and realise that you cant turn back the clock.

So come up with new and innovave ways of dealing with those challenges. So when we think about the future

we have to work around this challenge to meet our goals. Theres nothing wrong with doing things dierently;

in fact somemes this would mean doing things more eciently. So when you embark on the mission of re-

imagining your university, you should take your fate in your own hands rather than let events dictate it. That

would mean constantly facing up to the challenges rather than pretending that they are going to go away if we

just wait long enough.

Q. You are also known to support diversity. What would your advice be to instuons that want to ensure

diversity on campus?

George Blumenthal: Success is an important message and you need to convey that message to parents as

well; since they are an important part of the decision making process. The key element is thus to make sure that
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they succeed. Having a diverse student body means that their educaonal backgrounds will be dierent. It

doesnt mean that some are smarter than the others; it just means they havent got the same background. So

its parcularly important that students have access to some kind of help in the rst year to make sure that if

they are lacking some background in a parcular eld then there are resources available to help them come up

to speed. (Another) element is making them comfortable. ... You have to nd ways that make people (from

dierent socio-

economic background) feel that they are a part of the community.

Q. Why is internaonalisaon important? What kind of relaonships do you have with Indian universies?

George Blumenthal: Universies have to be truly global and internaonal because we live in a world thats

shrinking and to understand the world beer we need to reach out to other places. I think our students at

UCSC benet from having foreign students study at our campus because it exposes them to a wider range of

student body. Our faculty has been working on several collaborave projects across borders. However, ll re-

cently we havent done this in a systemac way.

I appointed an IndianAnu Luther Maitra as my special advisor on internaonal iniaves and as a result it

was natural to come to India rst. Eight of the 28 members on our foundaon board are Indian Americans, who

have a strong desire to nurture connecons with India. Hence our university has several strong connecons

with India. We have for instance a long standing lecture series called the Maitra lectures where we have had

people like Vikram Seth, Amartya Sen and Shashi Tharoor speak. We also have a South Asia Studies Programme

where we do a lot of studies on economics and polical realies of South Asia with parcular emphasis on In-

dia. We are also the home of the Satyajit Ray lm archives. One of our faculty members, Dilip Basu was instru-

mental in geng funding to revitalise many of the Ray lms which were in a horrible state of decay. These lms

have now been saved, preserved and digised for future generaons. Our relaonship also extends in the arts

where we have endowed chairs in Indian classical music. India is also one of the internaonal partners on the

30-metre

-long ground

-based telescope project that UCSC is building in collaboraon with Cal Tech. The other

internaonal partners include Canada, Japan and China.

Q. What do you look for when you seek out universies to partner with?

George Blumenthal: We do world class research and regard it as a key part of our educaonal mission, so the

number one aribute that we look for is quality. The second important aspect is that the relaonship should

benet both sides. We are as interested in having opportunies for our students to study in India as for them

to come to our campus.

In terms of the areas of partnership, though we are very strong in engineering, we do not want to limit our-selves to just this area. We are as focused on liberal arts as we are on engineering. Liberal arts teach people to

think independently. Theres too much of a tendency in the world to learn by rote rather than learning by cri-

cal thinking. To me the best students are ones who ask the uncomfortable and dicult quesons and push

professors for answers. As a professor my most enjoyable moments were when some student pushed me for

answers and didnt accept my answers. .. In fact at our university we recently instuted a new requirement

that students in all majors have to take a course on how to communicate and write in their chosen major. So, if

you major in physics then you have to take a course on how to write in Physics.


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Unique Plaorm For

Budding Engineers

Dr. Pawan Goenka, Execuve

Director, Mahindra & Mahindra said,

BAJA SAEINDIA is dedicated towards

providing the budding engineers a

plaorm to showcase their knowledge

and skills before the leaders of auto-

mobile industry. Gujarat Technological

University, Ahmedabad is amongst the

well known and respected instuons

with world class infrastructure and

technological support required for an

event of this stature. We are delighted

to join hands with GTU and hope to

successfully conduct the virtual BAJA

SAEINDIA 2015.

Virtual round of BAJA SAE INDIA 2015Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. promoted BAJA SAEINDIA,

a professional Society of Automove Engineers, host-

ed the virtual round of the BAJA 2015 series from Au-

gust 1 to August 2, 2014 at Gujarat Technological Uni-

versity (GTU), one of the leading technological univer-

sity in the country. The inaugural ceremony took place

in the presence of dignitaries like Dr. Akshai Aggarwal-

Vice Chancellor, GTU, Dr. Vadodaria, Registrar- GTU,

Dr. Sudhir Gupte, Convener Virtual Baja, Mr. Shaan

Varma, Co-Convener Virtual Baja, Mr. Subodh

Morye, Convener Baja SAEINDIA 2015, Dr. Partha

Chaaraj, Jt. Convener Baja SAEINDIA 2015 and Dr.

K. C. Vora Advisor Baja SAEINDIA.

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad said, BAJA SAEINDIA is

doing a commendable job of encouraging young engineering talent in the country by providing them a

plaorm. GTU wants every engineering college/polytechnic to parcipate in compeon of these kinds as it

sharpens the designing skills of students and they learn how to work in team. Therefore we are happy to ex-

tend our support in conducng the rst round of screening at our campus.

An out-of-classroom-educaon system

BAJA SAEINDIA is an educaonal pursuit for the engineeringcollege students, where engineering students from all over In-

dia can parcipate as a team. It is student level compeon in

which teams from universies plan, design, analyse, fabricate

and validate an all terrain car .


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465 students interviewed by 18 Pharma Cos.On Saturday, 12th July 2014 the 2nd Centralized Placement Fair

for Pharmacy organized by GTU I-TAP was inaugurated by Shri

Ketanbhai Patel, Managing Director, Troikaa Pharmaceucals

Ltd. and Dr. G.P. Vadodaria , Registrar ( IC) , GTU.

In India, about 35% of the pharma industry is in Gujarat.

People from all over the India come to Gujarat in the hunt of a

job but we want a job in Gujarat only said Shri Ketanbhai Pa-

tel, Managing Director, Troikaa Pharmaceucals Ltd. He shared that when we oer the job to local man-

power for the company oce out of Gujarat they hesitate in taking it. He advised all the students to wid-en their horizons and search opons out of Gujarat for jobs with good remuneraons and not to be bi-

ased for the inial pay packages. On the other hand Dr. G. P. Vadodaria, Registrar (IC) also advised all the

students to give best of their performance during the interviews as their performance may also aect the

students graduang next year. Shri Prabodhbhai Shah, President, GAAMA , Shri Padmin Buch, MD, GITCO,

Dr. A.K. Shukla, COO, Vovans Healthcare and Dr. C. N. Patel, Dean , Faculty of Pharmacy, GTU also graced

the event.


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Delegaon from The Huazhong University of Science and

Technology (HUST), China has visited GTU on 13th August

2014. The delegaon visited three renowned Universies

of India including GTU to explore the possibilies for aca-

demic collaboraons with reputed Indian Universies.

The delegaon was led by Ms. Annie Zhao, Vice Dean,

school of Internaonal Educaon and Mr. Ai Xiao, Head of

admission from HUST. Mr. Dhanajay Shah, founder CEO,

Moksh overseas educaon has accompanied the delega-

on and the visit was coordinated by Dr. Indrajit Patel,

BVM Engineering College, Vallabh Vidhyanagar.

Aer going through the presentaon on HUST by Mr. Ai, Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Hon'ble Vice Chancellor GTU ex-

pressed appreciaon. Dr. Aggarwal also shared the possibility of 1+1 programs in masters' courses between

GTU and HUST. He oered that GTU's Global MBA program is having few of the extra ordinary specializaons

like Gandhian Philosophy, Asian Businesses, and Ethics in Businesses and students from HUST can join these

specializaons for one semester at GTU. Recently, GTU has iniated the third joint research project, called Mul-

Locaon Collaborave Learning (MLCL) for studying the Democracies of the Word. It will be jointly conducted

with DHBW and other Universies of Canada and Africa. Dr. Aggarwal has shown the interest to start the Chi-

nese Language course with help of HUST at GTU. At the end of the meeng both Universies agreed to preparea dra MoU for the collaboraons in the area of IEP, 1+1 Programs in Master courses, student and faculty ex-

change, Summer Internship and starng Chinese language school at GTU.

Visit of delegation from HUST, China



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To celebrate the naonal days of MALAY-SIA, UGANDA, MEXICO AND BRAZIL facul-

ty members and students of L. J. Instute

of Management Studies, Ahmedabad

who are studying "Malaysia", Noble Col-

lege of Engineering & Technology, Juna-

garh who are studying "Uganda", Smt.

Shantaben Haribhai Gajera MBA Mahila

College, Amreli who are studying

"Mexico" and Som Lalit Instute of Man-

agement who are studying "Brazil" parc-

ipated in the event at GTU.

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal (Vice Chancellor,

GTU) said, "India is dealing with almost all

the countries of the world so it becomes

important for our students to study the business relaons with those countries and to interact with the ind

tries. Make more eorts to be recognized in the market and disnguish yourself from other MBA students. "

Ms. Bhagyesh Soneji -CMD, Ameda Pharma, Ahmedabad & Chairperson-Gujarat Council ASSOCHAM asked t

audiences, "Do we work for knowledge or luxury?" Let's try to become 'Chanakaya' and work for knowled

Movaonal Speaker Ms. Abha Maryada Banerjee asked the students to realize hidden potenal which eve

body is having. Mr. Sunil Modi, Advisor-GCSR presented informaon about four countries. Mr. Parth Kotec

Trustee of Noble group of Instuons, Junagarh also shared about his passion for educaon.

Presentaon of CASESTUDIES of BUSINESS INTERACTIONS


I-Scale Awards 2014Innovative Students Co-Creation Award for Leadership and Excellence (i-SCALE)

Name of Iniave: GTUPedia

It works as a link between students, faculty, material ava

able on net, projects, media and many more things theunique feature about our iniave is that we provide eve

relevant informaon of the needed at one place on one

go.. The system so developed would even be benecial t

the students belonging to the remote areas where they

even nd diculty using internet there were present a u

friendly, direcve ....a lot more to say and go on GTUPed

Team: Dhruv Saidava


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On 21st September 2014, GTU celebrated the Naonal Days of CHINA, GERMANY, MALTA AND CHILE. Faculty

members and students of Parul Instute of Management, Vadodara who are studying Germany, Chaudhary

Technical Instute, Gandhinagar who are studying - Malta, CK Shah Vijapurwala Instute of Management-

Vadodara, who are studying China and Sunshine Instute of Management, Rajkot who are studying - Chile

parcipated in the event.

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor, GTU said that each one should carry out joint research projects in

business management & this is the unique way of studying internaonal business. He informed faculty mem-

bers of instutes to start publishing the arcles on latest happing in the parcular GCSR country. India requires

the teachers and students who study the foreign country in details.

Mr. S. Rajaram, Mr. S. Rajaram, CEO, Erhardt Leimer India Private Ltd., a German company shared cultural

dierence between India and Germany, he added that the basic dierence between India and Germany is that

"We Call India -Mother Land and they call -Father Land". He also explained the work paern, socializing and

communicaon style of the German. He informed audience that Germen companies are highly target and result

oriented.

Dr. Shivendra Gupta, Independent Educaon Management Professional shared his experience with students

and facules of the funcon. He explained cyclic steps of development that "Engage - Inform -Educate". He

movated students by saying that "you should stop looking inside and outside but you should look to the goals

which are to be achieved, he told students that "Stand up and take charge of the situaon."

Mr. K. H. Patel, Board of advisor of GCSR, GTU shared informaon about all four countries. Ms. Bhagyesh Soneji

-CMD, Ameda Pharma Pvt. Ltd, Ahmedabad & Chairperson- Gujarat Council ASSOCHAM said that study of


GTUs internaonal studies program UNIQUE for HIGHLY USEFUL says Ambassador(retd) K H P


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During the academic year 2014-15 students of GTU MBA instutes are studying 113 countries. GTU has started

unique acvity of celebrang Naonal/Independence Days of the countries, being studied under the GCSR progra

On 23rd August 2014, GTU celebrated the Naonal Days of Uruguay, Indonesia, Afghanistan and Ukraine. Facu

members and students of L. J. Instute of Management Studies who are studying Indonesia, Kalol Instute of m

agement who are studying Afghanistan, Sardar Patel college of Administraon a

Management who are studying Ukraine and Shayona Instute of Business Management who are study

Uruguay parcipated in the event at GTU.

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal (Vice Chancellor, GTU) shared the objecves behind celebrang Naonal Days and the eorts

GTU to make the GCSR program eecve. He said that it is always a pleasure to interact w

students and faculty members and talk about GTU's MBA Program.

Mr. K H Patel-Member, Board of Advisors for GCSR said that Afghanistan is a very vital country for India. With Ind

nesia we have had very nice relaons and in spite of being an Islamic country lots of major Indian companies are

tablished there and trend is blooming. He also talked about business relaons of India with Uruguay and Ukraine.

Ms. Bhagyesh Soneji -CMD, Ameda Pharma Pvt. Ltd, Ahmedabad & Chairperson-Gujarat Council ASSOCHAM s

that You should have the respect for the feeling of my country, my language, my culture and my products. Afgha

stan students also parcipated in the Naonal day celebraon and performed tradional dance

Afghanistan during the program. They also discussed some cultural facts of the country. Dr. S.O. Juna

explained the students to put sincere eorts in doing all the praccal projects which are part of MBA syllabus.

Study of COUNTRIES can lead to beer Placement Opportunies says:-The Vice-Chancel


Crowd funding is simply the pracce of funding a project or venture by raising capital in the form of small amounts o

money from a large number of people. Crowd Funding in-kind mode doesn't give a stake or prot-sharing to the pe

ple who contribute mone

GTU organized the rst ever Crowd Funding Iniator (CFI) program, with the support of Start51, in the month of Sep

tember, 2014. This was Indias rst-ever residenal crowd funding boot camp, organized by any University in India

Student-Desk, a book exchange portal by Karan Pujara raised Rs 1.44 lac through crowd funding. Sign-Speaks, a

interpreng applicaon to communicate with dierently abled individuals; the brainchild of Kinjal Chaudhari raise

over Rs 1.56 lac through the crowd fundin

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor of GTU said that this proves that people are willing to support innovaon an

willing to socially invest in these young ideas. If a student is passionate about his/ her project and if a university ca

help the students develop their ideas systemacally so that student can make a strong pitch, he/ she can succeed

geng seed-funding required for moving from Final Year project to some sample products.


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On 11th October 2014, GTU celebrated the Naonal Days of ZAMBIA, SOUTH KOREA, AUSTRIA AND TURKEY. Tocelebrate the naonal days of ZAMBIA, SOUTH KOREA, AUSTRIA AND TURKEY faculty members and students of

R.B. Instute of Management Studies who are studying AUSTRIA, Patel group of Instuons-MBA Program who

are studying -TURKEY, CK Shah Vijapurwala Instute of Management-Vadodara, who are studying SOUTH KO-

REA and N.R. Vekaria, Junagarh who are studying -ZAMBIA parcipated in the event at GTU.

Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor, pointed out that GTU has the best syllabus of MBA and wanted to be the

best University but whether it is on the way to become the best university or not is answered every minute,

ever hour in the class rooms when facules are taking lectures and students are aending the same.

Dr. Saurabh Mehta, Associate Professor and HOD, VIT, Mumbai shared his experience of South Korea with stu-

dents and facules of the instutes. He stayed in the South Korea for almost 8 years. He emphasized that if any-

one who wants to learn anything new about the country then he should try to learn about the culture and lan-

guage of that country. He told students to focus industries i.e. Indian Yoga, Ayurvedic Medicines, etc. He also

idenfy and explained certain similaries and dierences between India and South Korea.

Dr. Rajesh Khajuria, Director CKSVIM and Chairman-

GCSR Commiee emphasised and informed that the

main move of this course is to train students and fac-

ules for Internaonal studies. Mr. Sunil Modi present-

ed technical informaon on Afro -Asian countries. Dr.

G.P. Vadodaria, I/C Registrar, GTU welcomed all the

guests as well as facules and students of all four ins-

tutes and added that under Global MBA programme

this is the innovave way of studying various countries

of the world.

National Day Celebration : ZAMBIA, SOUTH KOREA, AUSTRIA AND TURKEY



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With the support of Surksha Setu Karyakram of

Gujarat police, GTU has organized a one day

Self Defense Program for Women Dr. Kanan

Desai, ACP, Women Cell, Ahmedabad Police

was the chief guest and she delivered her ex-

pert lecture on Women rights. Aim of The self-

defence programme was to help the female

employee/girl students to keep themselves

protected from aacks and abuses. It was also

relevant, especially aer a series of aacks

against women in the country today to build

condence and empowerment of women.


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If everything goes according to plan, we can reach from Mum-

bai to Ahmedabad in one hour, 52 minutes by High Speed Rail-

way(HSR). According to project report, the High Speed Railwaycan be on horizon by the year 2021, said Mr. Gaurav Agarwal,

Director, Railway Board, Ministry of Railways.

The HSR will cover 176 km in Maharashtra, while 6 km in Dadra

-Nagar-Haveli, while it will cover 364 km in Gujarat. Thus total

546 Km will be covered by High Speed Train of Mumbai-

Ahmedabad corridor. The route will have terminals at Mumbai

& Ahmedabad. It will have intermediate staons at Navi Mum-

bai, Surat & Vadodara and Depot in Ahmedabad (Geratpur). Expected operaonal speed of the trains may be 350

km/hr and expected commercial speed may be 286 km/hr. It is also menoned in the proposal report that if speed

to be kept 300 Km/Hr then it will take 12 minutes more, but can save 27 % energy, Mr. Agarwal said.

He was speaking at a seminar on High Speed Rail in India -What, Why, When, Where, How ? organized by the Re-

search Center for Infrastructure, Transportaon & Water Management of Gujarat Technolocial University(GTU). This

Center organizes regular seminars on Aordable Housing, Solid Waste Management systems and recently on Smart

Cies. In the seminar the In-charge Registrar Dr. G.P.Vadodaria menoned about governments plan to establish

Railway University. He also discussed about the need of industry-academia interacon and joint research projects

between GTU and Indian Railways. Mr. Agarwal welcomed the idea and informed parcipants about fellowship pro-

grammes oered by Indian Railway.

Mr. Agarwal discussed various issues such as Housing-Land use, Policies Financing & Smart Growth. He said India

has one of the largest rail networks but does not have any high-speed rail (HSR) lines capable of supporng speeds

of 200 km/h (124 mph) or more. Construcon of the HSR corridor will cost Rs 45,000 Cr (per Km : Rs 80 Cr) and Roll-

ing stock will cost Rs 5000 Cr. Ministry of Railway is considering opons for funding of the mega project through

PPP : Public Private Partnership DBOT, Non-PPP : EPC (Engineering, Procurement and commission) as well as FDI

(Foreign Direct Investment).The trains will be aerodynamic and will have noise reducon systems. Seat Design of the

high speed trains will be comfortable and light weight. Brake system of the train will be Disc type, Magnec and EP

Brake. The train will have emergency exit, passenger alarm system, dra and bung gear and air condioning, Mr.

Agarwal elaborated quong the report.

He said that in the Report of Mckinsey Global Instute (MGI) projecons, it is menoned that by 2030, 40 % of In-

dias projected populaon will be urbanized. Thus there will be a growing demand of intercity transport between

Metro city and 2nd/3rd er city. In the absence of HSR, trac segment of airlines/cars is growing at 15 -20% per

year. Indian Railway is the biggest railway network under a single employer, transports 2 crore passengers & 4 MT

freight every day a total of 9 semi-high speed trains are planned in 2014-15. The speed of the semi-high speed trains

will be 140 Km/hr (intermient) to 160 KMPH (connuous).

Mumbai to Ahmedabad in one hour, 52 minutes by High Speed Train!


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Once the healthy establishment of the GTU Internaonal Students Cell (ISC), GTU has decided to undertake the

New Project of The Buddy and The Host Family to acvate the smooth and comfortable Academic as well as social

founding of all Internaonal Students (IS) within the Indian Holly Culture. The Buddy and the Host Family Project isall about to extend best of the facilies myscally and culturally through our rites & rituals, to the Internaonal

Students and connue the tradion of Athi Devo Bhavah: . In this Project one Local Studious Student, within the

same Instute, is assigned as The Buddy (Close friend) for each Internaonal Student of GTU. This Buddy will sup-

port him/her as & when required to excel academically, culturally and socially. Beyond the Buddy, one local Family

is idened and alloed as The Host Family, for each Internaonal Student of GTU, who will take care of him / her

just like their family member.

In order to make sure their complete establishment academically as well as domesc setup take place smoothly

(1) Internaonal Students from Bangladesh

Mr. Kinsuk Sarker and Mr. Arira Gosh (Sem II

B.Pharm Students) with their Host Family :

Dr. Indermeet Singh Anand, Mrs. Tujender

Anand, and their kids

(2) Internaonal Students from Bangladesh

Mr. Apurbo Sarker (Sem II B. Pharm Student)with his Host Family: Dr. Pankaj Prajapa &

their Kids

(3) Pilana Gardiya Dinusha (Srilanka) with his

Host Family

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